Early Church Fathers

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VII

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VII

ANTE-NICENE FATHERS

VOLUME VII

Lactantius

The Divine Institutes

Book I. Of the False Worship of the Gods.

Book II. Of the Origin of Error.

Book III. Of the False Wisdom of Philosophers.

Book IV. Of True Wisdom and Religion.

Book V. Of Justice.

Book VI. Of True Worship.

Book VII. Of a Happy Life.

The Epitome of the Divine Institutes

Elucidations

A Treatise on the Anger of God

On the Workmanship of God, or the Formation of Man

Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died.

Elucidation

Fragments of Lactantius

The Phoenix

A Poem on the Passion of the Lord

General Note.

Venantius

ON EASTER¹

General Note.

Asterius Urbanus

THE EXTANT WRITINGS OF ASTERIUS URBANUS¹

General Note.

Elucidation

Victorinus

On the Creation of the World¹

Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John

Dionysius

AGAINST THE SABELLIANS¹

Elucidations.The Confession, improperly called the Creed of Athanasius, is acknowledged to embody the (Athanasian) doctrine of the Nicene Council; and I append it here as an index to the state of theology at the period which is the limit of our series. Nothing is properly a "creed" which has never been accepted as such by the whole Church, and the Greeks knew no other creed than that called Nicene. The Anglo-American Church has ceased to recite this Confession in public worship, but does not depart from it as doctrine. The "Reformed" communion in America¹² retains it among her liturgical forms, and I suppose the same is true of the Lutherans. It is a Western Confession, and, like the Te Deum, is a hymn rather than a symbol, though breathing the spirit of the Creed.

Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions

INTRODUCTORY NOTICE TO THE TEACHING OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES

The Lord's Teaching Through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations.¹

Elucidations

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles¹

Introductory Notice to Constitutions of the Holy Apostles

Book I.

Book II.

Elucidation

Book III.

Book IV.

Book V.

Book VI.

Book VII.

General Note.

Book VIII.

The Ecclesiastical Canons of the Same Holy Apostles.¹

Elucidations

Clement

INTRODUCTORY NOTICE TO THE HOMILY KNOWN AS THE SECOND EPISTLE OF CLEMENT

Introductory Notice by Professor M. B. Riddle, D.D.

The Homily¹

Nicene Council

THE NICENE CREED

The Creed

The Ratification.

Addenda,

Early Liturgies¹

INTRODUCTORY NOTICE TO THE EARLY LITURGIES

The Divine Liturgy of James

The Divine Liturgy of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark¹

The Liturgy of the Blessed Apostles.

Elucidations

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